Mercy Without Limits
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455297608
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Overland Park, KS, USA
- Phone
- 1-855-633-3695
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Islam
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,840,877
- Expenses
- $25,919,786
- Assets
- $20,397,042
- Liabilities
- $3,062,396
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mohammad Hassan (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Mohammad Hassan (CEO): $127,115 total reported compensation
- Anas Dalaq (COO): $80,769 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve humanity with compassion and integrity, providing sustainable relief and development programs that empower communities and transform lives.
What it reported doing in 2023
Provided disastor relief aid through organizing volunteers to serve in affected areas by coordinating and carrying out the distribution of food, water, medical care, transportation and education resources to people deprived of these basic needs. The goods and services provided to the needy were purchased or provided using funds from contributions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.6%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.8%; rating input score 99; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 14 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 9 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 67.6% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported · 6 of 6 affiliation controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 7 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.